A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Grip this book or your e-reader and turn to page one. Buckle up. Expect turbulence.
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century Every nation remembers the Great War differently. For some there was nothing
My Life as a Foreign Country takes us into the nightmare terrain of war. Focusing on Iraq during a 2003 tour of duty, Brian Turner’s
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found At any moment I expected Frances Larson to quote from Stanley Holloway’s English music hall hit
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy Japan 1941, by Eri Hotta, a Japanese historian, traces the crucial decisions made by the Japanese political and military leadership
Wayne Johnston, writing The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, fictionalizes the life of Joe Smallwood, a real-life twentieth-century Newfoundland politician. In so doing, Johnston presents a
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front Tommy is a composite cubist portrait of British soldiers on the Western Front during the Great War. The
The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle There is some truth in the seldom-practiced adage: “It is amazing what you
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Save Lives in World War II What do Elephants really want?
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History Don’t know much about (the) Ukraine? Do you think President Reagan was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union?
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 In April 1939 Charles Lindbergh strode into FDR’s White House Office. The
Book Was There, Reading in Electronic Times I am excited to recommend Book Was There (a quote from Gertrude Stein, a writer who, I believe, would
The reader who recalls Frederic Tubach’s and Bernard Rosner’s movingly honest memoir, An Uncommon Friendship, should not pass up Tubach’s latest book, German Voices. The
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman The American Civil War lives on in our imaginations. A few of the war’s events can
Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War War and peace. Williams’s initial memoir, Love My Rifle More
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